Stove



(No Model.)

STOVE. 10.312662 Patented Peb. 24,1885.

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INVBNTOR. I 605 Sha/@6er ATTORNEYS.

llnrrnn Strafrns Param?. @tirreno JACOB SHAABER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 312,662, dated February 24, 1885.

` Appicaiifn lled September i3, 1884. (No model.) I

To all 1.071.071?, may concern:

Y Be it known that I, J Aeon SHAABER, a citizen of the United States. residing at the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Penlvisylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement is related more particularly to cooking stove and range tops.

The object of the improvement is to secure a more rapid heating of sad-irons or other articles of similar character, and to do so with a less expenditure of fuel. This object is attained Without any change in the construction of the stove or range or their top plates, eX-

cept in so far as that the loose cross-piecesv serving to make up the pot-holes and the covers therefor are combined in one single piece, said piece being perloratedwith a series of holes having the usual recessed edge and sup plem ental cover-plates of a corresponding form to close the same.

The drawings herewith, in which similar letters indicate similar parts, are so clear that an expert will require but a slight explanation to comprehend the same.

Figure l is a plan of a stove or range top with the improved cover-plate in place and a set of sad-irons being heated thereon; Fig. 2,

a'view of the same top with the usual style ot'` center piece and twin cover-plates, the latter 'adapted to the improvement; Fig. 3, a crossdetached from the stove or range top; Fig. 5

a plan and section of the supplemental cover.

A represents the stove or range top plate; B, the usual center cross-piece; B', lifter-hole, C, the usual pot-hole cover; G, lifter-hole; C2, perforation in same; D, the improved combination cover-plate; D', the lifter-hole, D2, perforation in cover; E, supplemental cover; E', lifter-hole; F, sad-irons; F', handles to same.

To shorten the hours of labor over theironingboard is a desideratum. The use of my improvement does this by the more rapid heating of the irons, while the iire in the stove :need not be forced to the same extent as when the irons are heated upon the stove-top. Time is first lost in heating the top platey to the proper temperature, and, when so heated, owing to the warping of the tops, the irons are not eft'ectually heated, as unless the iron rests equally upon the plate a current of air will be generated between the surfaces of the sadiron and stove-plate, which will carry away a portion of the heat which should have been transferred to the iron. In my improvement the plate being perforated of the form of the article to be heated, and provided with a slight ledge therein to receive the same, the heat willimpinge directly upon the exposed face thereof, and it is rapidly heated to any desired extent- As'no change is required in the construction of the top plate, stove-manufacturers can furnish the improved cover-plate as a separate detail to be used on ironing-days. The single round cover-plate C, Fig. 2, may be adapted to the same purpose by having a perforation and supplemental cover, as shown'. In either case the improvement is applicable to stoves already in use. I give preference to the form shown in Figs. land 4.

Where the articles are larger than the perforations in the plate they are set over the same. The heat will then impinge upon the. face to the extent of the opening, and the heating would still be more rapid than when f placed upon a non-perforate plate.

I am aware that stove-covers have been introduced capable of being adapted to receive a pot of smaller diameter than the opening, closed by the cover itself. (See patent to G. N. BaconJ No. 188,564, March 20, 1877.) In this case the portion of cover fitting the seat in the stove-topis an annular ring provided with passages eut through the ledge on its inner circumference. The cover proper being a solid disk provided with arms which drop through the passages in the ledge, and the cover being subsequently slightly rotated, the arms' interlock with the annular ring and permit the combined cover to be handled as a single piece. Both pieces are provided with the usual lifter-recess. In my improved cover this multiplication ot' parts is avoided, the adaptation being for a special purpose-the heating of sad -irons and the protection of the stove-top while usiug the same for laundry IOO purposes-my plate, as described, taking the place of the usual covers and cross-piece above the tire-pot.

. I am aware that it is not new to employ a 5 plate having a central opening for covering an ordinary round stove-hole, said opening in the plate being covered or uncovered at will by a smaller plate, in order that small articles may bc heated without removing the larger 1o plate, the removal of the latter being necessary when the ire is to have access to articles of any considerable size. aThis construction I do not claim, as my plate is not removed for the placing of any article, but covers the en- I5 tire space ordinarily occupied by two pot- 2o in order that several articles of the same or of a different kind may be heated at once.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A plate, D, in one piece, adapted to fill the space ordinarily occupied by the two pot hole covers and intervening detachable piece in a cook-stove, said plate being provided with a series of independent apertures for the reception of articles to be heated, substantially asset forth.

2. A plate, D, in one piece, adapted to fill the space ordinarily occupied by the two pothole covers and intervening detachable piece of a stove, said plate being provided with a series of openings having the form of the article to be heated, and a slight ledge to receive the saine, and aseriesof covers adapted to it on said openings, substantially as set forth.

JACOB SHAABER. Witnesses:

THOMAS l?. KINsEY, F. PIERCEHUMMEL. 

